Pedro Armendáriz
Born: 1912-05-09 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died: 1963-06-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.
Filmography
2024
- The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout as Self (archive footage)
1963
- From Russia with Love as Ali Kerim Bey
- Captain Sindbad as El Kerim
- La Bandida as Roberto Herrera
1962
- My Son, the Hero as Cadmo
- Los valientes no mueren
- Miracles Weaver as Señor Cura
1961
- Francis of Assisi as The Sultan
- My Son, the Hero as General
1960
- Dos hijos desobedientes as Pedro
- Violent Summer as Francisco Peña
- El indulto as Lucas Sánchez Parrondo
- Calibre 44 as Don Pedro
- Our Daily Hunger as Macario Férnandez
- Los desarraigados
- La cárcel de Cananea as Pedro
- El impostor as Profesor César Rubio
1959
- The Wonderful Country as Cipriano Castro
- La Cucaracha as Coronel Valentín Razo
- The Little Savage as El Tiburón
- El zarco
- Beyond All Limits as Pepe Gamboa
- Yo pecador
- Thirst for Love as Pedro Ortiz
- Café Colón
- The Vivanco Ladies as Gen. Inocencio Torrentera
- I'm flying low
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter as Pancho Villa
- Yo quiero ser artista as Self
- Los salvajes as Pedro Matías
- This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter as Pancho Villa
1957
- Manuela as Mario Constanza
- Men and Wolves as Giovanni
- This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter as Pancho Villa
- The Big Boodle as Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)
- La mujer que no tuvo infancia
1956
- The Conqueror as Jamuga
- Diane as King Francis I
- The Hidden One as Felipe Rojano
- Basket of Mexican Tales as Carlos Cosio
1955
- The Littlest Outlaw as Gen. Torres
- Fortune carrée as Igricheff
- Native Drums as Martinez
1954
- Rebellion of the Hanged as Cándido Castro
- Border River as General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Mulata as Martín
- Dos mundos y un amor as Ricardo Anaya
- Reto a la vida as Diego Maldonado
1953
- The Brute as Pedro
- Lucrèce Borgia as César Borgia
- The Lovers of Toledo as Don Alvaro Blas Basto y Mosquera
1952
- Night Falls as Marcos Arizmendi
- Soledad's Shawl as Roque Suazo
- Meat in Prison as Pablo González
- Los tres alegres compadres as Baldomero Mireles
1951
- Tierra baja as Manelic
- Ella y Yo as Pedro Muñóz
- Hell Road as Pedro Uribe
- Weddings of fire
- For Loving a Woman
1950
- The Torch as José Juan Reyes
- By the False Door as Bernardo Celis
- Pancho Villa vuelve
- La loca de la casa as José María Cruz
- Rosauro Castro as Rosauro Castro
1949
- Tulsa as Jim Redbird
- We Were Strangers as Armando Ariete
- The Unloved Woman as Esteban
- Late Afternoon as Sebastian del Llano
- El charro y la dama
- El abandonado
1948
- 3 Godfathers as Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte
- Fort Apache as Sgt. Beaufort
- Juan Charrasqueado as Juan Robledo (Charrasqueado)
- Maclovia as José María
- En la Hacienda de la Flor
1947
- The Fugitive as A Lieutenant of Police
- The Pearl as Quino
- Albur de amor
- La casa colorada
1946
- Enamorada as Gen. José Juan Reyes
- Rayando el sol
1945
- El capitán Malacara
- Entre hermanos as Ramón Arellano
- Bugambilia as Ricardo Rojas
- The Abandoned as Juan Gómez
1944
1943
- Wild Flower as José Luis Castro
- Another Dawn as Octavio
- Konga Roja as Federico Robles
- Tierra De Pasiones
1942
- I'm a Real Mexican as Guadalupe Padilla
- Passion Island as El Toro
- Allá en el bajio as Juan Hernández
- Del rancho a la capital
- Simón Bolívar as General Briceño Méndez
1941
- Ni sangre ni arena as Frank
- El Zorro de Jalisco as Leonardo Torres
- El secreto del sacerdote
1940
- Pobre diablo as Raúl Solares
- El charro Negro as Ramón
- Mala yerba as Chuy Rodríguez
- Los olvidados de Dios as Zenón Rojas
- El jefe máximo
1939
1938
- Los millones de Chaflán as Antonio
- Canto a mi tierra as Antonio
- El indio